History Film / RiseOfThePlanetOfTheApes

[[caption-width-right:350:''[[BigNo "... NOOOOOOO!!!"]]'']]

* BigNo: It happens courtesy of [[spoiler:Caesar]] serves as [[WhamLine the single most important event of the film.]]

* MoodWhiplash: When Dodge [[spoiler:snarls "Get your stinking paws off me, you damn dirty ape", people laugh ([[{{Narm}} or groan]]). When Caesar stands upright and shouts [[BigNo NOOOO]], entire movie theaters fall silent.]]

* ActorAllusion: [[Film/X2XMenUnited Colonel Stryker]] is seen in the trailer saying, "[[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman They're not people, you know.]]"

** If Will would have told his boss everything during the ''five years'' of his father miraculous recovery, ALZ-112 would have been Jacobs's blockbuster drug, millions of Alzheimer patients would have gotten their lives back and Caesar might have been invited to talk shows.

* SuddenlyVoiced: It's quite an important, and [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome awesome]], scene.

* BigNo: [[spoiler:Caesar's Big No]] serves as [[WhamLine the single most important event of the film.]]

** Likewise "Take your stinking paws off me you damn dirty ape!" This time it's used by the oppressor, not the prisoner.

*** Actually, after the movie premiered, experiments with macaques proved this to be untrue. With higher brain power, apes ''could'' feasibly speak.

** Of course, most of this can all be hand waved by the fact that the ALZ-113 probably changed the apes not only mentally, but physically as well. Caesar wasn't nearly as upright until he inhaled the 113.

* HopeSpot: [[spoiler:For Will when he sees the initial cure work on his father. However, anti-bodies soon develop to fight the cure and the Alzheimer's comes back with a vengeance.]] Serves as a bit of ShowingTheirWork, since this is generally the final outcome of most Alzheimer's treatments in real life (the ones that work at all, anyway).

* RockBeatsLaser: And Caesar beats Rocket.

* RaceLift: Will's equivalent character from ''Conquest'' is Armando, who is Mexican.

Directed by Rupert Wyatt, the 2011 film ''Rise of the Planet of the Apes'' serves as a [[ContinuityReboot reboot]] of the ''Franchise/PlanetOfTheApes'' franchise. The film is a loose remake of ''Conquest of the Planet of the Apes'' and marks the OriginStory for a new ''Planet of the Apes'' universe covering a new take on the backstory to the original films. The movie is notable for the prominent use of SerkisFolk (with Creator/AndySerkis [[TropeNamer himself]] playing Caesar) to portray the apes.

* NeverTrustATrailer: The trailer suggest that the ape horde Caesar leads are trying to violently conquer the whole planet, when in the actual film they're just trying to escape from captivity, generally only responding violently as a reaction to humans trying to hurt them.

* HateSink: While Dodge can be an entertaining LargeHam with two MythologyGag one-liners and Jacobs himself is an amoral CorruptCorporateExecutive, but doe not have enough scenes to make him unlikable enough, Hunsiker basically is a character to absolutely just hate due to his unexplained IrrationalHatred of the film's protagonists and considered a VeryPunchableMan whenever he's the ButtMonkey.

* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: Assuming that the beginning takes place in modern-day 2011, that would point the film's events taking place between 2014 and 2019. The fact that the story takes place in the future is confirmed by a brief reference to a manned mission to Mars.

* EarnYourHappyEnding: For Caesar and the few apes that made it past the Golden Gate Bridge.

** [[Film/TheLordOfTheRings Biting off someone's finger]] again, are we, [[Creator/AndySerkis Gollum?]]

** The cops when wrought-iron fenceposts start raining don on their cars.

** John Landon also vanishes from the film rather abruptly; he is last seen discovering the police watching security cam footage of his son's death at the hands of Caesar.

* ArtisticLicenseBiology: Steven Jacobs asserts to Will that if the ALZ-113 drug tested on chimpanzee boosts positive results for the chimp subject then it will have the same positive effect on humans. This is inaccurate; despite the fact that chimpanzees share 99.1% of their DNA with humans, their biology is still far too different to always guarantee the same results for humans. Jacobs' wild assumption also violates the FDA-required Phase III trials that new drugs be tested on groups of humans before final approval and distribution on the market. RealityEnsues as the ALZ-113 drug doesn't really do the same for humans as it did with chimps, bonobos, orangutans and gorillas...

* TheBadGuysAreCops: Averted. The police are not cruel or malicious, they're just trying to halt the apes from running amok fearing that the animals could harm humans. They don't know the apes were tamed by Caesar to avoid contact with humans and containing the loose apes is virtually impossible, the only way to stop the apes' stampede is by shooting them down.

A sequel, ''Film/DawnOfThePlanetOfTheApes'', was released in 2014, directed by Creator/MattReeves. A second sequel, ''Film/WarForThePlanetOfTheApes'', still directed by Matt Reeves, was released in 2017.

* ButWhatAboutTheAstronauts: That Mars mission is in for a ''big'' surprise when they finally return. In fact, it's implied to be the ''Icarus'' from ''Film/PlanetOfTheApes''.

* GreenEyes: The ALZ-112 and 113 cause green pigmentation in an ape's eyes.

'''Maurice:''' [[CrowningMomentOfFunny Apes stupid.]]

* SuddenlyVoiced: It's quite an important, and [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome awesome]], scene.

* YouShallNotPass: Done with an orangutan wielding a manhole cover and a gorilla wielding a parking meter ''he ripped from the pavement.'' Exactly as [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome awesome]] as it sounds.